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Palmer shifts blame for Qld job losses

Outgoing federal MP Clive Palmer has filed a statement of claim against the administrator of his failed nickel business, insisting John Park is to blame for the loss of hundreds of jobs.

About 800 workers lost their jobs when Mr Palmer's Townsville refinery closed and special-purpose liquidators are now attempting to claw back almost $70 million in taxpayer funds used to cover workers' entitlements.

Queensland Nickel's administrator and now liquidator, FTI Consulting, claims there's evidence Mr Palmer acted as a shadow director and used the ailing business to bankroll other interests.

Mr Palmer has repeatedly distanced himself from any decisions that led to the job losses, and has taken particular aim at FTI's John Park.

In a statement of claim filed in the Supreme Court of Queensland this week, Mr Palmer accused Mr Park of lying in his report and inventing transactions.

"All his allegations about me are fabrications made to cause damage to me personally and to the political party of which I am a member," the MP said in a statement on Tuesday.

"It is time to bring John Park to account and make him pay for the damages he has caused families in North Queensland by his decision to close the refinery and to reject the financial package I had arranged to keep everyone employed."

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FTI has described Mr Palmer's claims as "completely without foundation" and has said it will strenuously defend the allegations.

Mr Palmer's statement of claim came on the same day he had been due to front the Federal Court in Brisbane alongside his nephew, Queensland Nickel's sole appointed director Clive Mensink, for an examination regarding the collapse of the business.

But last week, Mr Palmer denied ever receiving a court summons and insisted he wouldn't be appearing.

The hearing was delayed when Mr Mensink told liquidators he couldn't attend because he was overseas.